10:
Whole Plant Physiology In High Tunnels and Under Protected Cultivation
10:
Whole Plant Physiology In High Tunnels and Under Protected Cultivation
Objective(s):
How does the environmental modification resulting from high tunnels and other methods of protected cultivation affect root-shoot balance, source-sink relations, and temperature stress? The environmental conditions in high tunnels are moderated in certain respects and exacerbated in others, compared to production in the open field. This can lead to physiological disorders and lower quality of produce. In what ways can we manage these conditions using experience from field production, and where do we need new algorithms to manage fruit and vegetable crops grown under protected cultivation? Several studies related to this topic will be presented in the hopes of generating a wide discussion of environment and plant physiology of fruit and vegetable crops grown in protected cultivation.
How does the environmental modification resulting from high tunnels and other methods of protected cultivation affect root-shoot balance, source-sink relations, and temperature stress? The environmental conditions in high tunnels are moderated in certain respects and exacerbated in others, compared to production in the open field. This can lead to physiological disorders and lower quality of produce. In what ways can we manage these conditions using experience from field production, and where do we need new algorithms to manage fruit and vegetable crops grown under protected cultivation? Several studies related to this topic will be presented in the hopes of generating a wide discussion of environment and plant physiology of fruit and vegetable crops grown in protected cultivation.
No Overall abstract for this workshop.
Sunday, July 26, 2009: 8:00 AM
Field (Millennium Hotel St. Louis)
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